Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-08
Two Kinds of Wives.

Kansas City Times: when man loves
a woman well enough to marry her, and
he ought to have love that will last
after death to do that, why docs he marry
refuge. a place where he can get away
from the world, place where he can
keep his Idols and household gods. On
the outside lfes battle may be stern and
cruel. He can fight that bravely if,
through its greatest stress and torment,
he can still see Il light shining in the win
dows of his home. Blows may be heavy
and wounds deep and painful, but after
the struggle the rest and after the scOr.
ing of the flesh the balm in Gllead.
Reverse the picture and marry wO-
man who will not make home. She
must be eternally Oh the wing. At times
about the premises there may be seen a
form somewhat familiar, yet all but in
tangible, and there may be heard the
noise of familiar pinons whiah are vet
all but invisible, and the humming bird
is OIL and away again, no flowers in its
home rare enough or fragrant enough to
tempt it to linger,to alight, to build its
nest.
Suppose, again, a man has married a
woman who has lured him to his destiny
because she was pure; modest, cultivated,
refined, in his eyes a perfect female. She
her. The possession must be absolute
and unqucstioned. None of the graces,
the pleasures, or the obligations of what
is known as society need to be put away
or abandoned for single moment. Inc
only stipulation that the man makes is
for home, for his wife to be mistress of
that home, and for his own inexorable
possession Of that mistress and that
household.
ho
he awakens to the realization of the fact
that the woman of his idolatry is about
to become an actress. That the modesty
which once shrank timidly from the bash.
full ardor of his own woOing IS about to
face with a braZen stare the hateful
simmer of the footlights. That the
cheek which once burnt red under single
caress is about to be slobbered over by
professional lcchers. That the lips that
had told HIM of her love in the soft hush
of the twilight were to have lips laid
upon them that never made a vow of
passion that was not broken, nor plighted
faith to u contiding woman that did not
wreck her life by wrecking her chastity.
That the form which once to him was all
that he had imagined of the grace and
poetry of motion was TO be girt about by
other arms and find rest and content
ment upon other bosoms.
Wha! If it is all acting and stimulation
and make-believe. did the man marry
ultation and make-belevey 1t is the
contamination which kills him to the
soul. 1t Is the fondling, the kissing, the
makes the farce s,0'Us9'Is so Horrible Tnt to
HIM. 1t Is the bosom bare to the breasts
which makes him shudder as one is sup.
posed to shudder when somebody treads
upon the spot where he is to be buried.
1t is the exposure Of person which puts
the indescrbable charm of modesty to
death, and puts in the place of the one
painted, rouged, furbelowed, and bed
izened thing, running hither and thither
at the call OF this or that manager, set
upon by libertines. cOnned over
by insutferable puppies, perse-
cuted with indecent proposals,
besought for interviews and
assignations-in the name of everything
which goes to make up the humanizing
influences OF home and the tranquil and
sustaining pleasures of married life, what
is man to do under such circumstances
In the old days in Rome if she had not
listened to and obeyed her husband she
would have been killed. A little touch
of the steel even now might not be bad
transaction. If the family is to continue
in the future as it has been in the past
the bulwark of liberty and the adamantne
foundation of the State-more power
ought to be given to the head of it. In
the days when giants were, the wives
were home women and perfectly obedi-
ent. One would no more .have thought
of aspiring to any public position with
out her husbands consent. much less OF
becoming an actress, than she would
have thought OF strangling her sleeping
first born in its cradle. 1t is now time
for old things to become new again.
How Some Wives are Woed and Won.
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